Samba - Share folders or files without username and password

This tutorial would help you configure samba without username and password, this is sometimes convenient rather than typing the password always, depends on your setup though!!

Step 1 : Firstly, you need to have samba installed.If you dont CLICK HERE
Step 2 : Go to the terminal and type sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
Step 3 : The text editor should open with the smb.conf file
Step 4 : Now look for the string "security = " and assign "share" to it(it normaly is security = user ).Therefore the line looks like
security = share
Step 5 : Also ensure that guest account is enabled .. Add the line
guest account = nobody
Step 6 : Now to create share.. just add the following piece of code at the end of the smb.conf file

[Guest Share]

        comment = Guest share
        path = /path/to/share/
        browseable = yes
        read only = yes
        guest ok = yes

       You could change [Guest Share] to whatever you like, that would be your share name.Also replace /path/to/dir to the path the share directory
Step 7 : Save the text file and restart samba by typing sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart